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Re: Express bus renumbering. |
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Posted by BusMgr on Tue Mar 27 16:49:44 2018, in response to Re: Express bus renumbering., posted by WayneJay on Tue Mar 27 12:28:26 2018. More accurately, it would be best to characterize the scheme as that used by the Board of Estimate, or its Bureau of Franchises, than as DOT.The general rule used by the Board of Estimate was that a bus route within a single borough received a single prefix letter corresponding to that borough, and a bus route operating between multiple boroughs received a multiple letter prefix. The prefixes did not relate to the character of the service being local, express, or otherwise. For example, the multi-letter prefix of local route QBx1, operated by Queens Transit Corp. and its successors, indicated its operation within both Queens and the Bronx, and other routes used various combinations. As well, the Board of Estimate used a single letter prefix in designating Q53 for the express route operated by Carey Transportation (now Transdev) between the two airports in Queens. The Board of Estimate was not always consistent, most notably using the single letter prefix "B" for all routes operated by the Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corp. (now New York City Transit Authority), regardless of the borough(s) of operation. This is, in essence, the same scheme that was later adopted unilaterally by NYCTA for its express routes, a single letter "X," regardless of the borough(s) of operation. It was several years ago that the NYCTA unilaterally changed the designations of several "B" prefixed routes that had been operated by B&QT to align with the primary borough of operation (e.g., B58 became Q58), so the present-day re-designation of express routes is just an extension of that practice to NYCTA express routes. (It was not only NYCTA that would unilaterally change bus route designations; e.g., Green Bus Lines changed its route MQ23 to route QM23.) The next logical step would be to re-designate other multi-borough bus routes to multi-letter prefixes (consider, for example, routes Q44 and B39 becoming routes QBx44 and BM39, respectively). However, it may be that NYCTA is under the mistaken impression that multi-letter prefixes designate express routes (which, as shown above, is not actually the case), then it might not want to take that next logical step. In short, there are many inconsistencies with New York City bus route numberings, and discussions could go on forever as to what would be "best." |
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